I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. Henri B. Stendhal
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. Henri B. Stendhal
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. Henri B. Stendhal
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. Henri B. Stendhal